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Ditto - not even remotely unsalvagable. Heck, you don't even need some of the traps for it to work. There aren't going to be any adjacent channels in your area.
By the way - this is why I don't align most sets and when I do it's often just the sound. Great learning experience none the less.
Yes, these are capable of excellent image resolution but that also requires you to feed it a signal with good bandwidth. Most sources are going to be band limited because of color info. There are ways around this but that's a topic for another thread.